The Neon Hieroglyph

A collaboration between Turner-Prize winner Tai Shani, The state51 Conspiracy and Strange Attractor Press: a beautiful collection of music, image and text presented across a fabulous cherry marble 12" vinyl wrapped in an arresting gloss sleeve, stunning accompanying hardback book and a very small number of folio prints. The 40 minute album features a reading of the Shani's text by Molly Moody, backed with a captivating, hypnotic score for cello and electronics by Maxwell Sterling. Mastered by Rashad Becker. Tai Shani's new solo show 'Your Arms Outstretched Above Your Head, Coding With the Angels' is currently running at London gallery, Gathering. The Neon Hieroglyph: a series of painterly and poetic considerations on a feminized history of the rye fungus Ergot, the chemical basis of LSD, from the author of Our Fatal Magic. From the cellular to the galactic, via Palaeolithic cave markings to the trace impressions left by drone photography on our mind's eye, incorporating dancing plagues, communist psychedelic witches, hyper-sexual fungi, chthonic descents, and skyward ascents, The Neon Hieroglyph weaves together a series of painterly and poetic considerations on a feminized history of the rye fungus Ergot, the chemical basis of LSD.